it could've been a lot worse, rhonda santos, it is not as bad as the worst case scenario. florida tries to pick up the pieces from all of this. we know six dead, 3 million without power and cost estimates going up up up up up. how can you quantify that so soon. we get an idea what was like in the midst of that in this hit the state as a category 3 storm. you love to call himself a storm chaser. i don't know which category it falls into. what did you think of it. >> reporter: it has been a few years. we are here in another major hurricane. we just had a major hurricane come through here. they took storm surge from helene, perry, florida, we are back here. we rode out the storm in punta gorda and experienced significant storm surge event, 10 foot storm surge a little higher, you see the aftermath next to me, both up on shore, multiple boats, another one on this side of me and across the waterfront we lost power last night. we are in the gulf of mexico, the storm surge arose all around. significant wind pretty far south of where the i made landfall in sarasota. that is why we